The idea is for budding entrepreneurs to walk away with not only a team, but with access to the infrastructure that is critical for ideas to grow into mature startups: mentors, VCs, and a community of other entrepreneurs.

We think this 27-year-old is someone worth paying attention to. The boy certainly knows how to hustle. He moved here from Miami, Florida, just four months ago and it seems like he already knows half of Silicon Valley.

"I came here and didn't know anyone. I always envisioned hackathons as places to test out ideas and gauge investor interest," Gopman said.

But that wasn't what Gopman saw when he showed up at TechCrunch Disrupt's hackathon this fall. "There's no organization to it whatsoever. They don't help you — there's no mentorship. It's all about making money for TechCrunch. There's no incentive to help them build startups," Gopman said, ironically wearing a bright green TechCrunch Disrupt T-shirt during AngelHack.

So Gopman created one that would tap the talent in the valley and provide the participants with resources to keep their ideas alive after the hackathon ends.

It was a scramble to get the hackathon together in the last couple of weeks, Gopman said. The planned venue fell through at the last minute — so Gopman charmed Adobe into hosting the hackathon and talked Docusign, GitHub, and Box into sponsoring it.

AngelHack attracted more than 300 people over the weekend. Starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday, teams hacked away at their project for 24 hours. About 50 slept overnight. Finally on Sunday evening, teams presented their ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win $15K in seed funding from Startup Labs, among other prizes.

Joey Mucha showed up in a tiger outfit and brought a Skeeball machine. He's standing there with Greg Gopman.

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Mucha is a competitive Skeeball player and challenged hackers to a match during the night.

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The event started on Saturday. About 300 people came, 180 participated, and 135 presented.

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Teams formed and put their projects on GitHub, the source code hosting and collaborative service.

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50 people slept overnight. University of San Francisco college student Erick Pillay (and hackathon rookie) passed out. "Finance class can be dry. But it's dynamic here," he said.

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At around 6 pm on Sunday, the teams started to present. Many people walked around sleep deprived.

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But the room was still pretty packed.

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Ahmed Siddiqui kept time. Each team had 2 minutes to present.

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Followed up by 1 minute of questions from the judges. From the left, Joyce Chung from Garage Ventures, Jeff Tannenbaum from Blue Run Ventures, Dan Bragiel from i/o ventures, and Daniel Brusilovsky from Teens in Tech.

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Dan Bragiel from i/o ventures is listening.

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Ricky Wong and Harris Tsim created the LinkedIn version of Hot or Not.

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Someone in the crowd yelled out: "I don't want to just rate dudes."

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Nick Frost said he moved to San Francisco to be in the heart of innovation. While in the Navy, he started a blog called StartupLi.st in his tent in Afghanistan.

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The Next Web's Hermione Way was the mc.

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Jack of all trades Kyle Ellicott mentored about seven teams.

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Primer Labs co-founder Alex Peake was dressed in a lab coat. "It teaches kids how to make games to teach things that inspire actions that change things." Yes, it's a mouthful. But he's doing really innovative stuff to teach kids how to code.

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The hacker movement is growing. Here's a map of over 900 hacker spaces around the world.

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Have you ever bought a daily deal and forgot to use it? In the middle here, PariSoma's Julian Nachtigal works with his team members on a website to help you get your money back when a daily deal expires.

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"Getting refunds is hard. We make it easy," Nachtigal said.

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Kegs were tapped long before the night was over.

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Leave it to the Australians to make a beer-related app. Goon is Australian slang for cask wine. Eoin McMillan told us that a common game is to put a goon bag on a clothes line and spin it around...whoever it lands in front of has to drink. McMillan and his team created Goon Buggy to keep track of how much you drink throughout the evening.

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It awards badges for achievements and sends a follow-up email the next day so you can see what you drank, where you drank it, and even gives tips on hangover cures.

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Alex Gourley built Tron from scratch. It turns a regular bike into a high tech workout machine through vibrations in the iPad and can track side-to-side movements.

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This was one of the only projects that actually got an applause during the three-hour long demo session on Sunday. Gourley is a co-founder of Bit Gym, which is focused on helping people workout with their iPads and iPhones.

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Gopman is thinking hard about who the winners will be. Hmmm....

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The top winner gets $15K in seed capital from Startup Labs if they go through their incubator program. Plus some PR training for several months.

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And the winner is... Swarm Insight.

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The BlackBerry PlayBook was supposed to go to a team that built a blackberry app. Big surprise, no one did. So the gadget was given to @broodman because he won the Skeeball tournament.

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Usually the sign of hard work: Empty pizza boxes.

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After spending the whole weekend together, Gopman and others bonded. We think we are seeing brogrammers in the making.

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Gopman is already looking forward. "The top teams got co-working spaces at different incubators. Some of the VCs emailed me because they liked what they saw and wanted intros," Gopman said. Apparently even Naval Ravikant of Angel List stopped by Sunday afternoon. He must have liked what he saw: Gopman said Ravikant will be a judge at the next hackathon in February. "Everything Ravikant touches turns to gold," Gopman said.

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If these founders work hard enough, they could eventually make this list...